Task Forces

Task Force Members

Uterotonic Drugs and Devices Task Force

Steve Brooke, PATH (Task Force Chair)

Jennifer Blum, Gynuity Health Projects

Martha Carlough, IntraHealth

Richard Derman, University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School

Kathy Herschderfer, International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)

Justus Hofmeyr, Effective Care Research Unit

Lars Hoj, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Monir Islam, World Health Organization (WHO)

Katherine Krasovec, PATH

Bridget Lynch, ICM

Nancy Moss, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Bannet Ndyanabangi, Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus

Malcom Potts, University of California, Berkeley

Jeff Spieler, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID

Patricia Stephenson, USAID

Paul Van Look, WHO

Donna Vivio, JHPIEGO

Beverly Winikoff, Gynuity Health Projects

First Interventions Task Force

Andre Lalonde, FIGO (Task Force Chair)

Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIG)

Ralph Hale, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Joseph Ruminjo, EngenderHealth

Suellen Miller, University of California, San Francisco

Harshad Sanghvi, JHPIEGO

Yancy Seamans, PATH

Vivien Tsu, PATH

Community-based Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Task Force

Joseph deGraft-Johnson, ACCESS Program (Task Force Chair)

Niamh Darcy, RTI International

Lily Kak, USAID

Marge Koblinsky, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDRB)

Mona Moore, Independent Consultant

Susan Otchere, Save the Children

Ndola Prata, University of California, Berkeley

Theresa Shaver, White Ribbon Alliance

Lynn Sibley, Emory University

Nancy Sloan, Columbia University

Marcela Tapia, JHU/CCP

Training Task Force

Diana Beck, ACNM (Task Force Chair)

Annie Clark, ACNM

Maureen Corbett, IntraHealth

Hadi Eltahir, EngenderHealth

Frances Ganges, Independent Consultant

Patricia Gomez, ACCESS Program, JHPIEGO

Ellen Israel, Pathfinder International

Sara Stratton, IntraHealth

Meeting Highlights

March 2008

Task Force meeting minutes coming soon....

March 2007

Community-based Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Task Force Minutes (25 KB PDF)

First Intervention Task Force Minutes (34 KB PDF)

Uterotonic Drugs and Devices Task Force Minutes (48 KB PDF)

Training Task Force Minutes: These minutes are a detailed review of the AMTSL training manual. For those interested in these minutes, please contact Zoe Ruhf at zruhf@path.org or 202-822-0033.

January 2007

Training Task Force Minutes (49KB PDF)

December 2006

Community-based Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Task Force Minutes (19.3 KB PDF)

Uterotonic Drugs and Devices Task Force Presentations

Stacie Geller: Oral misoprostol in preventing postpartum hemorrhage in resource-poor communities: a randomized placebo-controlled trial (1481 KB PDF)

Melodie Holden: In-country strategies on misoprostol for PPH (660 KB PDF)

Jill Durocher: Misoprostol ongoing research–what else do we need to know? (48 KB PDF)

Steve Brooke: Oxytocin in Uniject: where are we now and what is next? (95 KB PDF)

March 2006

Uterotonic Drugs and Devices Task Force (20 KB PDF)

Community-based Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Task Force (20.5 KB PDF)

December 2005

Uterotonic Drugs and Devices Task Force (39 KB PDF)

First Interventions Task Force (18 KB PDF)

Community-based Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Task Force (23 KB PDF)

Training Task Force (26 KB PDF)